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Hello there.

I have the Latest Articles display on my homepage which shows the last 5 from all categories, however i'd also like to display latest articles from certain categories below or on another part of my home page.

ie: Latest Articles All Categories

Article One
Article Two
Article Three
Article Four
Article Five


Specific Category Latest Articles
Article Two
Article Five

Another Specific Category
Article Three
Article Four

Can anybody help me with this?

Thanks.
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..create a new block with the same code as latest article!
in the php code of the new block you have to define the query for the articles
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$this->articles = $this->getArticles('article_category_id = (replace thiswith the ID of the category)','article_date DESC',5);

replace the text "(replace thiswith the ID of the category)" with the category you want (without quotes) to show.
In this example it will show 5 articles.

Greetings articlefinder
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Excellent. Thank you for the quick response and the help. I understood it.

ANother question while i'm here... i have a search box on my homepage..but i'm not sure what it actually searches. Any ideas? Not keywords, tags, or general words. I cant work it out.
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articlefinder said:
..create a new block with the same code as latest article!
in the php code of the new block you have to define the query for the articles
example:
$this->articles = $this->getArticles('article_category_id = (replace thiswith the ID of the category)','article_date DESC',5);

replace the text "(replace thiswith the ID of the category)" with the category you want (without quotes) to show.
In this example it will show 5 articles.

Greetings articlefinder


You can find the category_id with PhpMyAdmin in the ams_categories table
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I have actually gotten rid of the default search function on most of my site and replaced it with Google search. ie outdoorsarticles.com

I don`t know how many articles you have in your database, but you need quite a few for the default search to work properly.
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Excellent. Thank you.

One final thing. I can create articles, categories..etc that is all set up. However i try to create a few custom static pages and it doesnt work.  Nothing fancy about them.. it just seems that once i've put in what i want and the title..etc then it doesnt actually 'make' the page... any ideas? No error or anything, just nothing created.
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did you click the little "page is active" box on the edit page?
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Yes.  I tried all combinations, incorporating with cms, custom page name, default page name, submitting, saving then submitting..etc..etc But nothing. It's a strange one.

Looking in mysql i can see that the record is formed..but as i dont use the usual menu i'm relying on (view) in the admin area..

http://www.mydomain.com/?page=about_us

That would be the correct URL?
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on the "edit page" section of your admin, you will see an input field for the page URL at the top right. This would be the path to the page....YourSite.com/page.html

From your example though, it looks like you don't have the Mod-Rewrite in Settings set to yes
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I'm pretty sure my host doesnt allow Mod Rewrite.. however, where would i go about turning it on? I dont see an option under settings.  Why would i be able to create articles..etc but not pages, doesnt it use the same process? or are these generated pages actual hard copy .html pages rather than databased data..
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Anne Kirrin said:
I have actually gotten rid of the default search function on most of my site and replaced it with Google search. ie outdoorsarticles.com

I don`t know how many articles you have in your database, but you need quite a few for the default search to work properly.


Hi Anne.

I have taken your advice and replaced the default search with Google. My problem now is nothing is being indexed or found? Used the url to my install and also latest articles url when setting up Google search.

http://articles.mychoicedeals.com/

Do you have any advice that may help me getting the search working? Sure would appreciate it.

Also, looking for a thread/instructions on adding the number of articles in each category.

Thank in advance for your help.

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